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posted: October 1st, 2005 |
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Photos included on this page are only those taken between September 3rd and September 11th. See page 2 for the rest of the month. There are several (too many?) photos which include Mt. Fuji this month. There are 9 on this page and there are 25 on the next page. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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The first 2 photos are from a trip to Mt. Takao on September 3rd - a Toad Lily and a Liriope muscari. The 3rd photo is a Lychnis miquelina taken on the trail to Mt. Kumotori on September 10th.
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The first photo here is a Commelina communis, the 2nd is an Impatiens sp. and the 3rd is an unknown red berried tree.
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The first 2 photos here are of the same butterfly, one by me and one by Kazuya. The 3rd photo is me at the summit of Mt. Nanatsuishi (1,757 meters = 5,765 feet). We crossed over the summit of
this mountain on the way to Mt. Kumotori. This trip to Mt. Kumotori was on the weekend of September 10th and 11th - we camped out 5 minutes below the summit (see Row 12) of Kumotori (2,018 meters = 6,620 feet).
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The first shot here is Kazuya at the summit of Mt. Nanatsuishi. The next photo is me on the final leg of the trail to the summit of Mt. Kumotori. The 3rd photo is Kazuya at the summit of Mt. Kumotori.
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The first photo is me at the summit of Mt. Kumotori. The 2nd and 3rd shots are both by Kazuya near sunset time. The 2nd shot is 5:41 PM and the 3rd shot is at 5:44 PM. We didn't have a very spectacular sunset - but the sunrise
the next morning made up for it!
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Here are 3 sunrise photos - one by Kazuya and two by me. The first is 5:05 AM (September 11th), the 2nd one is 5:12 AM and the 3rd one is 5:13 AM. Each one is looking a different direction, so the colors are quite different.
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Here are 3 more sunrise photos. The first one is 5:13 AM, the 2nd one is 5:14 AM and the 3rd one is 5:15 AM, very rapid color changes.
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This row shows Mt. Fuji in all 3 photos. The first one was taken at 5:15 AM, the next one at 5:16 AM and the final one at 5:19 AM. By the way, the first photo in this row has some really spectacular color to it which this small 640 x 480 image cannot show well. If you would like to see a 2,000 pixel x 1,516 pixel JPG image of this photo CLICK HERE for the 427 Kilobyte JPG file (which will open in a new window).
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The first shot here is looking towards the sun at 5:21 AM. The next shot shows Mt. Fuji again at 5:22 AM. The 3rd shot, as the sun breaks the horizon, was taken at 5:22:30 AM.
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The first shot here - Mt. Fuji again - is at 5:23 AM. The next shot is 5:26 AM, colors slowly disappearing. The 3rd shot, looking more westerly, is at 5:27 AM.
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Here is the last of the sunrise. The first shot was at 5:28 AM. The 2nd shot was at 5:29 AM and the one of me, with Fuji in the background, was at 5:33 AM.
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After sunrise we returned to our tentsite and cooked and ate breakfast. The first shot is Kazuya eating breakfast, with the tent behind him. This is 6:34 AM. The 2nd shot shows the summit hut from just a few meters from our tent, although we
could not see it directly from our tent. This shot is 6:35 AM. The final shot in this row is a mossy forest shot on the way down the back side of the mountain. The summit climb was 6.25 hours, the descent, via a different trail, was 6.75 hours!!
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Here are 2 more mossy forest shots. Very different country than that which we passed through on our way up the mountain.
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Here are 2 shots of the same Geranium sp., one shows the flower and one shows the seed head.
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